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CHAPTER 89: THE CODE DUEL.

Author: Iamur_Light
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-17 00:27:06

Gloss POV

The moment the light consumed me, the world dissolved into static. For a brief second, I couldn’t tell whether I was alive or lost inside a dream stitched out of corrupted code. Then, I blinked, and the distortion cleared. I found myself standing in Dream’s office, or at least, a twisted reflection of it. The walls shimmered like liquid glass, colors shifting between black and silver. Every line of furniture glowed faintly with code, and beyond the windows, there was no city, no skyline, only streams of data falling like rain.

It was the system’s interface world. Adrian’s world now.

I clenched my fists and scanned the room. Everything felt wrong. The hum of the lights, the familiar scent of coffee and ozone, all too real, but just off enough to unsettle me. My heart pounded. I could feel Dream’s presence somewhere far away, faint and fading, like a heartbeat behind glass.

Then I heard it, the soft clap of hands behind me.

“Well, well, well” Adrian’s voice purred, smooth
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